Commonwealth Numbered Acts

TORRES STRAIT FISHERIES ACT 1984 NO. 23 OF 1984 - SECT. 60.

60. (1) The Governor-General may make regulations, not inconsistent with this
Act-

   (a)  prescribing matters required or permitted by this Act to be
        prescribed; or

   (b)  prescribing matters necessary or convenient to be prescribed for
        carrying out or giving effect to this Act, and in particular-

   (c)  prescribing penalties, not exceeding $500, for offences against the
        regulations;

   (d)  prescribing conditions or classes of conditions to which licences or
        Treaty endorsements may be subject;

   (e)  prescribing signals and rules of navigation to be observed by
        fishermen in areas of Australian jurisdiction;

   (f)  for providing for the marking of boats licensed under this Act and of
        nets, traps, containers and other equipment used for taking or storing
        fish;

   (g)  for regulating the rights of priority as between fishermen or boats in
        areas of Australian jurisdiction and prescribing the rules of fishing
        in those areas;

   (h)  prescribing rules to be observed in trans-shipping fish in areas of
        Australian jurisdiction;

   (j)  for facilitating the exercise by officers of their powers under
        section  42 ;

   (k)  for providing for the reporting of the positions of foreign boats
        licensed under this Act at times when those boats are in areas of
        Australian jurisdiction;

   (m)  for requiring the master of a boat that is being used for commercial
        fishing in an area of Australian jurisdiction to permit a person
        nominated by the Secretary to go on board the boat and for requiring
        the master to provide accommodation and facilities for that person
        while the person remains on board the boat;

   (n)  for providing for the furnishing of returns containing information in
        relation to-

        (i)    the taking of fish in areas of Australian jurisdiction and the
               sale or disposal of those fish;

        (ii)   the processing of fish taken in areas of Australian
               jurisdiction and the sale or disposal of fish so processed;

        (iii)  the taking of fish with the use of Australian boats in areas of
               Papua New Guinea jurisdiction and the sale or disposal of those
               fish; or

        (iv)   the processing of fish taken with the use of Australian boats
               in areas of Papua New Guinea jurisdiction and the sale or
               disposal of fish so processed;

   (o)  prescribing short methods of reference to areas of Australian
        jurisdiction specified in the regulations or to classes of activities
        by way of fishing specified in the regulations and the purposes for
        which those methods of reference may be used; and

   (p)  for providing for the furnishing of information relating to the
        persons on board a boat licensed under this Act that is in the
        Protected Zone.

(2) The Minister shall cause to be compiled from the returns furnished under
regulations made under sub-section (1) and from any other source, statistics
in relation to matters referred to in paragraph (1) (n) and shall publish or
make available, in such manner as he thinks fit, so many of those statistics
as he thinks fit.

(3) Subject to sub-section (4), information derived from returns furnished
under regulations made under paragraph (1) (n) is not to be used for purposes
other than statistical purposes.

(4) A person is not excused from furnishing a return required by regulations
made under this section, or including information in such a return, on the
ground that the return or information might tend to incriminate him, but his
return is not admissible in evidence against him in any proceedings, other
than proceedings in respect of false information contained in the return or in
respect of a refusal or failure to include information in the return.